Who are we?

[BlackBat242]

Connie visited Anchorage - Ranger went from Sasebo, Japan to Vancouver, B. C. Canada - we were part of the closing ceremonies for Expo '86.


And infojunky - when I took that photo of Connie I was standing on the boat sponson between the two aircraft elevators aft of Ranger's island (slightly different configuration than Kitty & later carriers).

This photo is from 29 July 1968, showing CV-61 in Puget Sound - but you can see where I was (my shop was in the overhang directly above, on the 02 deck).





Just above and inboard of the wheeled crane in this pic:

 

[Nick H]

Name: Nick
Age: 47
Country: United Kingdom
Favorite version of Traveller: Classic and Megatraveller mash-up.
Military Service: No
Favorite Suppliment: World Builder's Handbook, Traders & Gunboats
Favorite Sector: Spinward Marches
Favorite Race: Vargr
Favorite Empire: The Third Imperium
Started Playing Traveller: 1981

 

[The Pakkrat]

Who is the Pakkrat?

Name: Pakkrat, or Pakk if more familiarity desired
Age: 42
Country: USA
Favorite Traveller version: MegaTraveller with Mongoose close second
Military Service: none
Favorite Suppelent: Merchant Prince
Favorite Sector: Knoellighz, for its under developed status which I am working on to rectify
Favorite Race: Vargr, as I am also an anthropomorphic artist, (say the word 'furry' at me and you get the business end of my FGMP)
Favorite Empire: Either the Infinity League or Asimikigir Confederation
Started playing Traveller: 1996

Side Inquiry: Is Military Service a significant attribute to the Who Are We thread? If so, can that be explained to me? Curiosity vs. :CoW:

 

[Musenik]

Name: Musenik (Keith)
Age: 54
Country: USA (Oakland/Berkeley area)
Favorite Traveller version: original
Military: Air Force brat only.
Favorite Supplement: Library Data
Favorite Sector: District 268
Favorite Race: other than human: Hivers
Started playing: 1979
Recently began developing an experimental traveller campaign using a narrative dice system.
Games I've shipped: www.mousechief.com (as in mischief : - )

 

[Meteoric Assault]

Name: Meteoric Assault
Age: 44
Country:CSA soon to Seward's Icebox again.
Favorite Traveller version: Classic Traveller
Military: Army
Favorite Supplement: Adventure 7 Broadsword
Favorite Sector: Sword Worlds
Favorite Race: other than human: Vargr
Started playing: 1981
Games I've shipped: ?

 

[ovka]

Name: Ovka
Age: 47
Country: USA (Atlanta area, southern suburbs)
Favorite Traveller version: CT and any version someone else wants to play
Military: USAF
Favorite Supplement: Secret of the Ancients (loved CT, but MgT really added color)
Favorite Sector: Spinward Marches
Favorite Race: Vargr
Started playing: 1981

 

[Septic]

I Don't Feel THAT Old!

Name: Septic
Age: 52
Country: Canada (Victoria area, View Royal)
Favorite Traveller version: all for source material, greatly taken with T5 (5.09 currently)
Military: Canadian Forces Primary Reserve, Artillery
Favorite Supplement: Book 4 Mercenary + Book 5 Navy + Book 6 Scouts
Favorite Sector: Spinward Marches (Spent most of MegaTraveller in Ziafrplians Sector)
Favorite Races: Humaniti, Vargr
Started playing: 1978
Role: 95% Referee, played a Scout Commando in a frantic espionage campaign in Regina Subsector.
How I jumpstart my game design: Generate an NPC and dream of motivations/emotional drives.
Current Game: Reconning Farreach/SPIN with 6 ~approximately 16 year old Players.

 

[nobby-w]

Nobby-W

Named after my first (and only) Nethack character to actually ascend (Nethack 2.0, ca. 1990), I'm a crusty old fart who has been playing RPGs on and off since 1982, cutting my teeth on none other than Traveller.

For my day job I'm a data warehouse consultant, proudly bringing intelligence since the business since 2001. I live just on the edge of the High Weald AONB but originally hark from that hotbed of Traveller activity, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Mostly I use CT and bits of MT and have been working on a fall of the 2I/long night campaign setting of late - dragging out some work I did sometime in the 1990s and finishing it off.

 

[calmar11]

Hello all !

I'm new here,
From France !
I played a lot of rpgs in my youth ( I'm 42 now ), playing no more, but sometimes I unearth some of my favourites like Megatraveller ( & a bit of Classic Traveller )
Very difficult to play SF in France , people aren't really interested in SF rpg. I hardly tried to do it with my players ( AD&D was the favorites in our days...played a lot in long campaigns... )
I found all Chivalry & Sorcery 1st and 2nd edition a few times ago ( I dreamed for it , and found it , but never palyed : people doesnt have any time... ) and recover som passion for rpg. I "unearthed" all Traveller and MegaT I had and think about prepare something quietly ( time is a problem...work, etc.. I also am a musician, about recording these days, and so on , so on... )
Well...
I subscribe here to discover what I missed to understand , problems I had with the rules or while playing , and of course to say hello to all of you , comrades !!!
I mostly was a gamemaster for a lot of rpgs : AD&D , adv.Marvel Super Heroes, Pendragon , Reve de Dragon, Star Wars a bit ( using MT the most time ) and others. I am a great fan of FGU games : Wild West ( I love ! ), etc...

Sorry for my english , it's awkward a bit , I am french !!!!

Hi !

 

[JimMarn]

Your English is better than some English speakers I know.

Welcome aboard !

 

[pshrynk]

I have posted this in another form elsewhere, but... I've been Travelling since 1980 or thereabouts when I stopped into the local comic/gaming shop on my way from class to work in the food coop. There was this intriguing black box with red letters and the rest is history. I've been out of active Traveller gaming for a while. (real life's a bitch) But as I was unpacking my stuff after may latest move, I came across my boxes of Traveller stuff, sat down and started reading, got yelled at for not getting things done, and was completely hooked all over. Now all I gotta do is find a group to play with. I've played CT mostly, but just got the T5 PDF and am slogging through, with visions of sugar plum scout ships dancing in my head. I have to do something to get that damn song out of there!

 

[calmar11]

Thanks !

(thanks for my english )
Yeah , life's a bitch , as you say!
I would add something : I am a enormous fan of SPI's Universe RPG ! ( I talk about the boxed set , including the starship wargame and the acurate map of the real universe ( in 3D ! , the exact replica of the hard board of SPI's Starforce I used )
Do you all know this alas forgotten game ?
It's a marvel , it was made using a lot of Traveller's concept, but with marvellous and interesting ideas.
What I loved the most is the game offers a setting WITHOUT any extraterrestrial contact, there wasn't any ( except an excellent supplement in ARES magazine for a first alien contact , if some want to), into our true galaxy centered around Earth up to 40 parsecs.
Space travel is very similar to Dune , using psions to work interstellar navigation.
I really recommend this game you can find new somewhat easily on internet.
It was clearly created around Traveller system, going somehow deeper.

 

[Duke Craig]

Playing traveller...

My wife loves fantasy RPGs especially D&D. However she likes Sci-Fi and loves Traveller. So I guess I'm fortunate that she'll play in either genre. Now if I could get her to run as Dm/Gm...this is another story.

Joseph

Haha, lucky you Barsanuphius, on both fronts.

 

[baktegon]

Name: baktegon
Age: baby (26)
Country: Chicago, USA!
Favorite version of Traveller: MgT 2E so far, haven't spent much time with any other
Military Service: only JROTC in high school
Favorite Supplement: so far, The Linkworlds Cluster for T20 (basis of my current campaign)
Favorite Sector: Ley!
Favorite Race: Ursa
Favorite Empire: Romulan Star Empire
Started Playing Traveller: 2016

 

[BlackBat242]

Just thought I'd comment here - after all this time, should this be a sticky again?

 

[Shadow Shack]

Age: Starting the second half of a century
Country: NV (prior: TX, SC, WI, AL, NM, & VA)
Favorite version of Traveller: Classic Traveller (own Books 1-8)
Military Service: Air Force brat, Army ROTC wash-out in college, 2X denied USMC enlistment post 9/11. Hey, I tried...
Favorite Supplement: S-7 Traders & Gunboats
Favorite Sector: Regina
Favorite Race: Humans (non human = Aslan)
Favorite Empire: The Imperium
Started Playing Traveller: 1985-86, started GM this year

 

[gchuck]

How did I miss this?

Name: Chuck
Age: 61 (You youngsters behave now!)

Background: 6yrs USAF, Huey crew chief. 36+ yrs baggage tosser for a major airline.

Since: '78 and the LBB's first appeared (to me anyways)

Played as: I have never 'played' Traveller. Been a ref since the git-go.

Favorite Version: CT

Fave supplement: Scouts! (One Planet! One Scout! Uurraahh!)

Fave sector: Any where that's not considered 'canon'. Though I try to use 'canon' as background.

Current Inspiration: Weber's 'Honorverse'. 'Manpower' is the perfect bad guy!

Mantras: "If you start a gunfight, you'll spend every other session doing just CharGen!
"A successful session is one in which not a single shot has been fired, and all the players are grinning like idiots!"

 

[Topaz172]

Age: 55
Country: UK
Favorite version of Traveller: Classic Traveller (own Books 1-8)

Favorite Supplement: Book 6 Scouts (for the star system building)
Favorite Sector: Regina
Favorite Race: Humans (non human = Aslan)
Favorite Empire: The 3rd Imperium
Started Playing Traveller: 1985-86, started GM this year

Also
2D Artist
3D-Modeller
3D-Printer

Due to my workflow a 3d-printable file is a side product of starship design. As of Writing I have a Scout in a display case, a Lab-ship drying on the shelf and a Safari in the post.

A link to the art...
https://www.deviantart.com/topaz172/art/Hunting-Party-811290453

 

[Ullarsskald1957]

Name: Ullarsskald1957 aka Steven
Age: Grognard (62)
Country: southern Saint Marys County, Maryland, USA
Favorite version of Traveller: Still play off the Little Black Books and follow on supplements I started buying in January 1978. Though I do bring in elements from MegaTraveller, New Era and T4 (plus a little Space Opera).
Military Service: 4 1/2 years at Norwich (the military college in Vermont), 4 of that in AFROTC, USAF Reserve 83 - 92, made SSgt, 7 years combat engineering, 2 years electronic/communications security
Favorite Supplement: Tossup between GDW's Mercenary and Paranoia Press' Scouts & Assassins.
Favorite Sector: Spinward Marches
Favorite Race: Human
Favorite Empire: 3rd Imperium
Started Playing Traveller: Fall 1977 when our usual DnD DM introduced us to a new game he found over the summer.

 

[Bromo33333]

Age: 50
Country: USA - Massachusetts, North Shore of Boston (Cthulhu Country)
Favorite version of Traveller: Megatraveller (excitement and conflict)
Military Service: None
MS in Engineering (Electromagnetics); Lived/Worked in various places in the US, UK and Asia.
Favorite Supplement: DGP "Worlds"
Favorite Sector: Reft
Favorite Race: Hivers (Humaniti = Genoee)
Favorite Empire: Rule of Man as it falls
Started Playing Traveller: 1983, just tipping my toe back in